Controls on Coral-Ground development along the Northern Mesoamerican reef tract

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Rodríguez Martínez, Rosa E ^a   Jordán GarzaAdá, Adán G ^a   Maldonado, Miguel A ^b   Blanchon, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Centro Ecológico Akumal A C Akumal   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENTHIC FAUNA; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PLANT DISEASE; SEDIMENT; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPONGE (PORIFERA); ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEXICO; SURVIVAL; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CORAL REEFS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MEXICO; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 83355176584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028461     Document Type: Article

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